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Conan Doyle's The Adventures Of The Speckled Band
In the story “The Adventures of the Speckled Band” was written by Author Conan Doyle a perceptive person named, Sherlock Holmes, tries to solve a crime with his devoted colleague, Dr. Watson. On April 18, 1883 a woman by the name of, Helen Stoner appears in Sherlock’s office desperately asking for help. Sherlock than told her to take a deep breath and tell them everything. Even though Helen was timid, she still told them the whole story. During the interrogation, Helen tells Dr. Watson and Sherlock that her sister, Julia died on the eve of her wedding and she is afraid that the same will happen to her. Helen tells Sherlock and Dr. Watson everything that she knows about how Julia died. Helen also says that Julia’s last words were the speckled …show more content…
Watson about how he solved his case. Sherlock had come to an entire insufficient data that had led him to the wrong understanding of the word “band”. Since they locked their doors at night, and the window was heavily firm, someone could not have of snuck into the house. Sherlock also concluded that since the bell pole was a dummy that was attached to the ventilator and the bed clamped to the ground, then the bell pole was there to act as a bridge for something to travel through the ventilator and on the bell pole and fall onto the bed. Sherlock also remembered that Dr. Roylott admired exotic animals from India. The poison from the swamp adder was not discovered in the 1880s. Dr. Roylott then trained the snake to come back with the milk that they saw. Dr. Roylott would put the snake through the ventilator so that it will travel through the vent, down the bell pole, and bit its victim. Also, when Sherlock inspected his chair it seemed to be worn, as if someone was standing on it. The metallic clang that Julia heard before her death was the door of the safe closing. Lastly, Sherlock hit the snake so that it aroused him and his temper so that it would kill the next person he saw. Sherlock indirectly killed Dr. Roylott. For a story to be a foul play mystery, some of the facts in it have to be false. At first the author made the reader believe that the Gypses were responsible for Julia’s death since they were on the lawn every night. The whistle was used as a false clue, but it was only used to train the deadly swamp adder. Also the safe in Dr. Roylott’s room was said to have papers, but it actually held a deadly snake. Along with that, Helen Stoner tells Sherlock that Dr. Roylott has a passion for Indian animals. Sherlock inspects the bell pole which is connected to the ventilator, in which the ventilator only went to two rooms- Helen’s and Dr. Roylott’s. Lastly, doctors pronounced Helen’s death to be of

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